Prize Quotes · Page 4

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

— Bob Hope

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

— Norman Jewison

“The prize of success is never a burden to carry”

— Harriett Antwi-Boasiako

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

— Ken Auletta

“As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.”

— Julia Quinn

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

— Chris Claremont

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

— John Banville

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

— John Bolton

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day…

— William Feather

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the…

— John Barth

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

— Jerome K. Jerome

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

— Ree Drummond

You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal…

— William McKinley

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to…

— Alexander Pope

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the…

— Joan Didion

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for…

— John Taylor Gatto

I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I…

— Stephen Dobyns

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic…

— Max Perutz

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was…

— Gene Tunney

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,…

— Plato

I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace…

— Wangari Maathai

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones…

— Richard Louv

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;…

— Patrick Henry

Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured…

— Kevin Sessums

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.…

— Richard Dawkins

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

— Jonathan Raymond

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

— John Barbour

I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

— Kygo

You have to pay the price for the prize.

— Robert D Dangoor

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

— John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

— Oswald Chambers

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

— Henry Mitchell